*^li lafcpw PPP *t* J*- 4 i' There were none of the proverbial Something for Topers. CUlVaUik, JUSo-lSSG. Tlie Old Woman's Warning:. "Was anything else taken?" I asked strawberry marks or mole3 so often sitting upright, forgetting for a moment In 1875 there lived in central Iowa Philadelphia News.You likely found on lost children in stories, so I my weak state. Vfr. *p8^ If we ha/i lived in TTI j^r clays. number among,your friends and acquaintances a family by the name of Robinson, had only the cameo to connect me The gentleman strove to control ^Wlip-i tuin^trei^ fig tneir lathes' praise some hearty old chap '!!.4-in listenm:? court-* to kin.:-. consisting of father, mother, and two with the unknown past. his emotion, but his wife was silently who has "taken a drink of nood whisky So I slipped it on my finger and when children, the latter being boys, 9 and v.*Wlv,t nm^ie from the i Mptnrocl strings weeping near the window. then h.ul v.on r" liaiuj ier face Jack told me to keep it for an engagement before breakfast for forty-seven years, "Yes, our only child," he replied 12 years old respetive'y. Robinson And peeiless giac~ until he could procure another and couldn't eat without it." Now brokenly. "Now will you tell me how was a we'.l-to-do farmer, well thought it became doubly dear to me. you came by this cameo, for it is the at the risk of having this worthy but Tn thesj lr.i\ days, v. hen knightly love of by the neighbors, and a Christian By-and-by, as soon as breakfast same? I to-day took it to the person I'\i:v 1 5oi t! its 'is in -v to Drove prejudiced person laugh himself into a man. There was, therefore, no one was" finished, much to my surprise JF .ve lind hvo'i.how el.Mily I who carved it for me so long ago, and state of apoplectic, redfacedness let and disappointment, my lover went ''.KI r.i'p'l tli fou .in I t.iuvncy cry who questioned the truth of the incident he recognized it at once, although it brave death or deathless lame me suggest that as old as he is, he may inoot To up to his studio and remained invisiefor has "WTasn bee ireset." he related. He had a brother yet find a^pibstitutenot only a In hei dj.ir r'rinie! seventeen years ago that two hours. in Des Moines, who was taken very ill cheaper one, but one that will never "He might have spent my birthday your child was stolen?" I asked eagerly. D'lt P'CJ wo ci" (onde'nnd by fate and sent for him, and he left home, coax him to take more than is good with me, anyhow," I pouted as I I'o n.i'l the earth '-o ssidly late expecting to be gone a least a week. for him. Take any man who is in the plodded up stairs feeling "blue" Li .t di L-it'i l.i n-o and rhyme "Yes. What do you know of it?" he THE A'iti in io 'thinner of t'ie time. enough. He had no hired man, but the boys habit of looking in the bottom of the questioned hoarseiy. p.iasion in me thrills, Tc prove \\hat BESTTOHIC. I knocked at the door of his studio. glass for "pure sociability" at inter "I know that I am your child then." were old enough to care for the stock, J- !a her billfe' "Not iust now, dear I'm busy,"' After I had told the story so often vals from noon until midnight, and and the wife was not a women to borrow This m~&< taw combining iron with F. E. Bard in Life. came in Jack's voice from beyond the tegetaMe to lka, mriekly oad nDja*te repeated to me by my mother Raynor if* for stomach comfort before he bi'eaks trouble. fares DyS* aleu IndieestlM, Wntbn door. they were perfectly satisfied that I belonged his fast in the morning, and let him, Impnre Btodft, Uaarui,MUUMiFciTraM Robinson was in perfect health when Angry and indignant, for he had allowed MY BIRTHDAY. to them, and their joy beggars and Nenraliifu after he has arisen and dressed, repair he left home, and there was no leason 11 is n unikilinx remedy Sar Tffmmm tSlbe me to spend my mornings there description. 6 KMncy* and IiVrr. to a drug store instead of a bar-room. to feel anxious for tho*e he left behind. for fwo months x^ast, silently went Their story was tha/t my lather had It is irrraluabl for Disease* feea&aa *D We, r.iothcr Kaynor, Jack and I, He has no appetite. Hs does not feel He reached Des Moines of a Saturday to my own room. Women, *ijd all who lead sedentary fires. given his wite a necklace of diamonds It does mt injure tbelecth, eanse beawtac&fjw as though he was "all there." Instead night. His brother was veiy low, but I was angrier still wh.cn ten minutes weie sitting our little f-it ting-room, and seeing how pleased her baby was produce (obstipationolher JrcwoeO*rmaA. it was believed thrfc the crisis had later his door opened to admit Miles of a cocktail, let him ask the druggist It enriches and porinro the Mftsd,rttonfttige with it she had shaken the stones before our h^tioom, but not parlor, i'or the appet ite. aids the treHimiia&au el food,Believes passed and that he was mending. Griffith, a fellow trom the Artists' to prepare a mixture of these ingredients its eyes, and at last, in a spirit Heartburn and X" hing, sd Jtorxqf&tens mother would never rail the httle box On Sunday night, at midnight, Club. Then I was ready to cry with the muscles and DA 13. of tun, c!aped it about the child's and quantities, which, when mixed of a loom by so dignified a title, and the watcher who had been at the For Intermittent TeTers, Lassite3e vexation. They had always petted Xt&cff' neck. But she did not understand together, shall constitute a single Energy. i it has eqimj. bedside during the first part of the and sx^oiled me, mother and Jack, and for the hundredth time they were telling wa5 the fastening, and as her husband dose: *3J- '.The genuine kas 1OT traAemarlrsaDC night called Robinson and retired. let me have my own way, so that I away from home and she could not me what they knew of my life. ci oste red lines on ^mrapytr. Tafce IK c&bex. Chloroform, five drops. The patient was resting easily, and could not bear even this little neglect s)iMttris)mei9)!m' KTns.mk get the chain over the child's head, "You see, Birdie," said mother,*as I Tincture of ginger, half teaspoontul. the watcher had only to give him medicine gracefully. she was obliged to let the nurse put the had always callad her, "it was a Compound tincture cardsmen, two once every hour. lie gave it at At last I was determined tobemean infant to sleep with the glittering ornament stoiiny night and Jack had been detamed teaspoonfuls. 1 o'clock, and filteen minutes later, enough to listen and hear if I could about its neck. But the temptation at the storehe was cash boy while he was seemingly as wide awake Water, one wineglass. what they were talking about so earnestly proved too great for the nurse, as ever in his life, a little old woman in the studio. at Cotton it Co.'s thenbut Swallow that slowlytake five minutes so she had taken baby quietly out to suddenly entered the room. The sick Me, I found out at once, for Jack ju^t as he was running up the steps a neighboring jeweller's and had the to do it. You will be surprised man was in the parlor bedroom, and had just spoken my name as I guiltily necklace unfastened. to find that in about fifteen minutes about se\en o'clock he met a woman the woman came from the sittingroom, put my ear to the keyhole. A disgiaceful The theory we.my new-found parents the "all gone" feeling will have disappeared. hurrying down them. She brushedby the door of which stood open. thing to do, I admit, but as I and I, formed was, that becoming 25 YEARS 1 W USETb* A gentle, pleasant warmth without speaking, and he, when he Robinson bowed to her and while mean this to be a faithful account of frightened at her own exploit, and not is felt in place of the gnawing sensation, reached the door, almost stumbled Greatt Medical Triumph f th* Ag*? somewhat surp:ised at her appearance, my birthday, and as I really did listen daring to try to replace the babyI and in a very little while there o\ er a basket where you lay all snugcled he supposed it was all right, at the keyhole, I record it. never can reali/.e that that baby was SYMPTOMS OF A are decided symptoms of being hungry. up in warm flannels. Ah, but taking her for a neighbor who had "I have made a great mistake," myselflest she be discovered she concluded TORPID LIVER. A repetition of the dose inside ol come in. She looked to be 55 years said Jack, sighing heavily. yo'i were a nice babv, my dear." to abandon it entirely. old, was very small for a woman, and an hour, in case the attack the night I couldn't distinguish Mr. Griffith's "Now, where do these people live "Pity my mother hadn't thought Less of appetite. Bowels costive^ FaSjtl** years afterwards he could describe her reply, but. hushing my breath, heard ffefore was very severe, will do no who have cared so kindly for you? I so'"' sarcastically observed. the bead, witi n. dnll ncnssitiaik in tavtc dress and features. She stopped in feack yort, Fain *mder tfee ttB]A*r Jack say, must see them," said my mother 'iubtediy you would have fared harm. A cup of black coffee twenty blad Fallaoss afterdating wiihaitfc* the center of the room, and Robinson "It has always been mv mother's Reluctantly I gave the address. i Hian in our humble home,' minutes after the first dose is an c\- iaclinatiaa 10 exertfaa Swdjr arsatoftV tip-toed over to her and said: wish. I did it more to please her, I Irritability cfcccuper, Low spirits, om&sAjve^rfef Jack came straight to me after my Jack, grimly.u yo don't think that i .Jf.k, (ellent thing to follow with, providid tea*ins aes lcctek a freliac suppose- She loves Bird dearly,and" "The doctor thinks he is much bet- mother told her errand, and he looked I hastily asked. "I the patitnt is not of a particularly Wearinesst Dizziness, Flsttcrins sif&m d"ir With a dry sob I fell forward on the ter." so old and worn and haggard that Heart, Dots bofor-etbe eTe*HeAorte nervous temperament. over ih rigbc eye, KostisaesM wit!* rug. I could not have stirred then "You must go home," she brusquely for a moment I was lost in pity for t=e badly to think my own i fitful dieam*. Itixbiy colored CTim raM$ had they opened the door and saw ine remarked in answer. You will find some men whose nerves him. inn blood would abandon me CONSTSPAT.ON. there. become unstrung upon very slight "Whome?" Then I remembered the indelicate /trust me with strangers, that's TUTT'S PI &X.S are eapecraSy anSajsioS "He has found out this early that 'ilcoholic provocation and such men "Yes." remarks he had made to Miles Griffith, I to soch cases, one dose ette^rs snot* he? he has made a mistake, has are prone to try the similia simihbus "But I came to help take care ol and in trying to be frigidly cool I only "..a* was seventeen years ago toniuhl," ebangcoflwliiicrnsioiiatonishthfrsiaSfeirrj- thought bitterly, when my brain i-urantur racket.d Theth best thing for a Thcy Increase tine A vpttte,ail -xn*ti James." succeeded in ciying weakly. meditated mother pase of that kin is drug store Fh bodv t-i Take KletU.thiin yricmn t stopped whirlingsolcould think. "It "You must be home by 10 o'clock "Oh, Jack' Jack" I sobbed, unable nonriabed,ii fry tbi-iv Tonic Action rcv ii: our comersation. the llestrrsOrKa*.tieirnIrSrJxv is only to please his mother that he again. Here is the dose to-morrow night!" said the old woman. to be anything but mv own impetuous chimed in, anxious to clear produc.l asked me to become his wife. And to Bromide of potassium, thirty grains. self "why did you teach me to i Ucd from Jack forehead "and think he should reveal his disappointment Celenna, two teaspoonfuls. "Why?" love you only to tire of me so soon?" you have always called it my birthday, GHAT HAIR or WHISKZSO change* tb a. to that horrid old Griffith iirstl Elixir valerianate ammonia, two GLOSSY BLACK by a single ajj^iifcalaest t} "Tire! How? What do you mean, She beckoned him further away and have made the day so pleasant: this ITK It imparts a uatozu outer, si'l* Oh it was too humiliating'" teaspoonfuls. dear?" he asked, taking my hands anxiously from the bed. and then whispered: for me, too. Let me bee." I rat- instantaneously. Sold by RraggisUi, x*- I resolved to release him at once, sent by express cm receiptor 9-t. as it he feared I was not quite "To-morrow night, before midnight, I'll guarantee that you will never tliJVim "you thought I must have Office. 44 Murray St., ft*w Yoxk but again I listened, having a dim rational. three bad men will enter your house resort to whisky again after you have been about a year old, and so I am hope, I suppose, that perhaps sny to rob and murder. You must go tried whichever of tliese doses which "It was my birthday, Jack. Don't eij.teen to-morrow. Have you made ears had deceived me. home!" may su't your particular case. As PARKER'S you remember you had Griffith up in my nirthday cake yet, mother?" "It it suits my mother" began soon as you feel able to eat, make the studio? And you told him you "How did you learn this?" he "\es indeed. And that reminds HAIR BALSAW Jack. your breakfast of oatmeal principally had made a great mistake in engaging asked, knowing well enough that she me I must out and see to the frosting the popular broaz ir dtrt**- "That's not the thmg," interrupted tor two or hree days. On the da'v yourself to me, andand he advised would not joke him at such a time, it, to Tiujht. Xo, you stay riht itie the h*or,Rc*tiwxng?iecote* Griff'th. "You nevv.r would be suited. a ft.or taking the first dose, invest in you to give it up,advice. and you said you when gray,and pre ouiling IStant-i but unable to credit her with all seriousness. heie. etch her. Jack, i'or she is not hi^ draft. It cleanses the sulevi She lacked expression and" follow7 two Havana oranges and substitute would to see the cake until to-moirow." the hxir tailing, ad as stops "Ye*, I knownaturalness I know the juice tor the pick-me up tonic, li For three minutes Jack stared at "They have poisoned your dog tonight," I retreated before her laughing command, mmmmmmomm sure tp olK-ise. 50c awl $1. size* t Irufrgttt* the laults!or I'm hotter acquainted the stomach rejects the oranges as me, and then he, with difficulty represing she answered, "and they are ami seeing how sour Jack still with Birdie than you are, Griffith." too sweet, throw them away and try an inclination to laugh, said: now sleeping in the barn. Theie are looked. I dottrmined to domy best to "To be sure," assented Griffith. the tonic again, but eventually letiun "My darling, how could you believe two ot them now to-morrow night make him behave like his own old The Best Oougb. Core jon. cam iese "Mouth too large eyes very wicant, to the fruit. it? Now listen. As you know, my there will be three. If you love your sth a^.in. Perching myself on the and the best known preventive of CartsxmfOirmi I've noticed. I advice you to give it forte is landscapes. Well, I thought wife and children do not tarrv here." This treatment will begin to show its aim oi his chair I leaned over, trying PARKER'S TONIC kept tn a horwi: a woliel up." I'd make one moie uial at portraits, keep sickness out. Used duttftttrtr letp* *"be: "Butbut eff'ert in a very few days. Instead of to catch his eye. blood pure and the Stomach, Liver rod Kithwys "I'll take your advice," exclaimed so, while I have been entertainingyou "Gogo'" she commanded, backing that uneasy, uncomfortable leeling "Cic^j, dear/" I asked, very sweetly in working order. Conghs and Colds nub bitfore Jack emphatically. and mother so politely in the studio, out of the* room. there will cornea vigor and a natur.-tl tt. It builds up the health. woman9" If yon suffer from Debility, Skin JLraptiomt, Then I rushed to my room. I was shly taking -sittings.' You "Charles, who is that evhilaiation that will brighten the eye "No." he iv plied in a tone that said, Cough, Asthma, Dyspepsia^ Kidae-/r'Uriwupfjeir know your birthday, or the day we asked the sick man, and Robinson and qnieke'n the step. A brisk walk So through Griffith'.: advice, which Female Complaints, or any disorder e tint Idaajs, "Yes, decidedly so let me alone." Stomach, Bowels, Blood or Nerves,, dloa't vaol celebrate as youis, and mother's 'all turned to the bed and found his around the block, it vou live in the Jack seemed so ready to take, my I/'it I was not to be rebutted. Slipping till you are sick in bed, but ose PJUMCKU'S TOMSC on thts same day so as she had often brother wide awake. brick and mortar stctj0n, brief little romance wasto be shattered. will not to-day it will.rive you rtcw Hf-ramd-wiir. my arms around his neck I drew expressed a wish to have your portrait come amiss. 1 would even go so far "I do not know." Well, 1 would never stay and let HJSCOX CO., N V* liX Ihce aiouud toward mine. Sold by Druggists, large savins buying $ sk painted, and thinking that you as to advise a five minutes' ex^icise "I saw her in the room just before him see my heart break, too tor 1 "Yci'ie sorry you didn't send me woul I like hers, I painted your counterfeits with hall-pound dumb bells. Grasp you came in. She came and leaned felt sure I never could live through to the Foundlings' Jloiue, aien't yon? as best I could, and then before them firmly and strike out as though over me. She must be a stranger.*' this trouble, HO dear had Jack in the It's enough to make any I showed them I sent for Griffith, you intended thumping somebody. Robinson passed into the sittingroom, role of lover become to me in a, few one (TOM, to think how he has been the fairest critic in the club. He told All that is needed is laith and a httie and from thence into the kitchen, short hours. tio':lle for seventeen years just be(ausrh-wa me candidly that^as a portrait painter perseverance, especially perseverance. but the woman had disappeared. ,\r So, some waynow it all seems like so softhearted over a I was a dead 'failure, and advised 1.00 0 wii im wmsm9 He called his brother's wife, but she a vague dream to meI found niyseli fWi"L.!BGTg8THStefHra* nihi" able lit tit baby "whose own people AGEKTS me to lsever let the public see my attempts. had no such person on her list ot acquaintances. a few hours later wandering aimlessly didn't care about keeping it. Are nrtt knowing or The Late Richa rd M. Hoe. The criticisms you heard The doors were all down a strange street, ForJOHKB GOCGH'Seoturn^smrttMA.-^SnSfoAShta* yoic soi'iy, Jat k'" were of your picture not you. Are tied locked and the windows down, and it ramd.H*s0&r caring where mv steps tended. Some New York Letter: The death of the "Are on, Bird?" satisfied9" you did not seem possible that she could workmen obstructed the sidewalk and lie suddenly straightened up, a look lale Richard M. Hoe calls our fittentioa PICTURES tinted ft'j? JB^ &ou<G have left the house, though a thorough "Perfectly," I answered, feeling as i) I was obliged to cross the street. I JOHN in his dark eyes I had never noticed to the printing-press factory, search failed to find the least trace of I could get well and strong at once. remember stepping down and advancing these berore. which is the best-known establishment her presence. It was 2 o'clock when "But my poor birthday was all spoil- a few steps,of hearinghoare shouts 'What have I to be sorry for?" I etna pa&st'tferaa. s?+m. %af/rw the search was abandoned, and at that ed," I sighed. on the east side of New York. Everybody, of warning, feeling a sudden shock and asked. \\Vs I not thrown into the ait U2rci ^xmE^oicn, tcg&ism* hour the sick man was amazingly better. "To-day is your birthday, my dear/' then all was b'ank. wilii cnaarfatii .-TriCT-rpcjd ar hands of the dearest, kindest mother indeed, has heard of the Hoe taunt rtmmscgrtotg, ornr ZMtnm He not only declared that he had interrupted my new mother, brightly, When I returned to consciousness I and oi her a girl ever had?" jmbMsimsL T&et'tieAta'ziMft.tffJMs presses, but if the reader were to seek V^'*pc kit JHuaur a I-tao M*d seen the woman and heard all she entering th room with Mother Raynor was a strange room everything was "Y*-s, dealthat is, we've always Ara qmta ijtsnituilrt. A-uutgnAB* the place of their construction he said, but he stoutly insisted that his wit Kegra] 1E Vv&no*, SMSt*ijtupr "and if the othpr was spoiled ask strange to me. meant kindness, but still I am not nearly T&> ft&* tmA MC brother should go home as soon as would find it amid that dense population what you will and vou may have it." Bufwrb SHEW .ags "Where am I?" I asked, although I your brother." possible. At 10 o'clock in the forenoon JTOU jut as "IT. take Jack," I said gayly. could see no one. "What has happen- which fills the vast area between "I 1 now it, but I love Robinson left for home. The And so I did, "lor belter or worse," vaspentt. vicprilr Ou. JKAIC to JS*.-* ed?*^ well," 1 be^an. tu some way under the Bowery and the East river. Arriving ten* of tfco rtumia, t.-Uo r **.*lt\nr nearest railroad point to his farm was a year from my eighteenth birthday. "You are with friends," said a low, tne steady Jook of Jolm's beautiful for it Ho contpctitfon. and ittonow ^utb^t i-ll .timers at the spot, one will at once be 10 to 1. JliKiatsa*. Editore. t'nJiew. imc ,gxm HMbebk seven miles, and. as he had to wait at soft voice ne tr me. ey*'s I iruild not t,o on with my usual unqimliiled endorsement and wisls4tOKlpta AOTBflSc, startled by its immensity. An entire a junction for several hours, he could The Suicide Mania. mow yourtlm* l mist tttiui/ ar,Q %tlha Miine bn Vf- Turning my eyes, they fell on a sweetfaced protest,i(ion* oi affection, as I had always tthanwihXf J elven.%**. M Kxrlnave tro-ftory wirrntlmtd not reach his house before 10 o'clock Special containingrlaUruulievIftnt.Cor 1 errs Scst iarg JM-jabntitA lady not yet old, although her been in the habit ot doing, and I A compilation made by the Insur square (at Grand .and Sheriff btieets) i?ii?inj lieJ*rm-_j\rtdn Artdr*** Jk A_ {&. STSTTUB- the evening. When he reached the ION ft CO.. Pvfts., 8 7 SC- Clark BC hair was nearly white, sitting near me. diewmy arm aw.iy lrom about his anee Chronicle presents many curi 1^ occupied, and the area is not less station at which ho must leave the ou leatures of the suicide mania, as "How came I here?" I demanded, in neik. than four acres, which in New York 1^ NEW 600BS1 mm PRICES railroad he told his story to the sheriff, "Fu I don't want you to, Bird," he follows: The suicides as reported ir a weak, startled voice. a great deal of land. The offices are and a team was hired and paid slowly and then he went on the papers for four years, number 6, "You are weak, but I trusti to your larqe, and yet such is the number of six well-armed men went out with oa^i'i'ly, ".My darling, I want you to 283. Ot tins number 471 were maidens good sense to remain calm while I tell clciks and draughtsmen that there is him. It was 10-30 when they reached Jo\ me ]tist as well as I do you. I and 1,315 bachelors. The signifi you why you are here. About a Henry J. Ln&oss, no room to spare and thence yon the house. They approached it want you tor my veiy own, tor my cance ot this feature is lost when it is month ago you were crossing the may pass across the courtyard to'the across the fieids, and came up just as tic. Bird." shown that 2,053 husbands and but street and my husband and I accidentally factoiy itself, where hundreds of ai tif-ans two men had entered by an open kitchen clasping me close in his strong arms 598 wives put themselves out of the ran against and severely injured Ibid employment. Here are built Sealer in. window, while the third was on he told me how happy I could make way. As maid orwifethewomenhavc you. There was nothing about you plinths presses that co^t $50,000, guard outside. The trio were speedily DRY GOODS* him by saying 1hat 1 loved him. And the best of it The widowers whe to inentify you, so we brought you and which yield a profit ot from $").- captured, and then several points corroborative so strongly did he argue his case that found life a burden number 28S and home." 000 to $10,000 but it is a slow tak, of the little old woman's *'GROCERIES, some nay I was completely won o\er the widows who sought voluntary "And this was a month. Has no and a* no one else can build them declaration were picked* up. The family to bin way of thinking, and before the graves number 128. Of the total one been here? Did you ad\ ertise?" Ii.-jh profits are a natuial result. The NOTIONS, ETC. dog had died suddenly, with every b'n ihday cake was frosted Jack and I number 780 were fai mers. and about "No, replied the lady. It was reported Hco establishment is the cnlyf plac* evidence of having been poisoned. calls wett engaged. one in every 2,000 is the ratio among boa in the police news I believe, as in this city vInch can Two tramps had been noticed hanging Riesling's Block, journalists, commercial travelers and "J ve accepted Jack as a birthday my husband had to pay a large fine fro'ii theme.Uest brain woike:-3 of the about the place the day before, and saloonkeepeis. The time of year chosen Erift," I whi.speied to mother as Iran for his carelessness, but I "never nieliopolif. In former days the. -enior &EWULM, MJ2HSL two of the arrested parties were identified by 635 persons to put themselves out. thought of advertising for your friends. Bennett and Moses Y. .Beach and as the fellows. They had slept out of the way was the month of June. A radiant look of surprised joy fairly I supposed they would go to the station, Horace Greeley went thither to inspect in the barn, and they had been joined The favorite age was thirty-five years illuminated her dear old face as she and then be directed here, if you machinery, and latterly the by a third. They intended to rob the and Indiana had the largest number omprehended the meaning of my remark. had any in the city." present Bennett and Dana, and also house and steal a horse and buggy to of any state in the Union. The reasons "I have none," I said bitterly. "I Pulitzer, have stood side by side to get away with. In hopes of shortening assigned for some of the suicides "It has been the wish of my life," was only a foundling, living upon inspect the latest improvements. This 'B his term of imprisonment at the expense are silly in the extreme, and some of she whispered, kissinc me softy. charity all my life." fact alone is enough to give the place of his comrades one of the trio the methods employed uniquelj* horrible. ready for other birthday gifts to-mor- I was,reckles. I did not think how distinction. turned state's evidence. He said it One woman killed herself because row." .she called after me. unnecessary it wasto speak of mj'own Progress in the manufacture or was understood between them that if her mother did, and another because "Oh, happy birthday!" I whispered history to a stranger. A whole month printing presses was slow to an a Mrs. Robinson and the children awoke she had a pimple on her nose. when to-morrow dawned, and I, awaking, had I lain there and no one had called. toni-hing degree until the opening of they were to be killed. Such people could do the world no remembered my promise to Jack. And my pale, thm hands showed the pi csent century. Franklin's press, possible good anyway. One young "What better gift could I have asked how near to death's dcor I had been. Now comes another singular feature which is now in the patent office at woman killed herself because her parents than the gift of dear Jack's love?" As I lay looking at my wasted fingers of the case. At 11 o'clock of the night Washington, is but little hetter than would not allow her to become Several little tokens were at my I noticed that my ring was gone. on which Robinson reached home the the earliest madewhose date was a Mormon, and a New Yorker shot breakfast plate some very expensive, Hastily I inquired where it was. sick man's wife was sitting up with three centuries previousand the most himself because he hadn't a nickel to too, for since Jack's pictures had begun My new-found acquaintance blushed, him, and, as he was resting very easy, rapid workmen could not exceed 200 put in the collection box at church. to sell so well and orders poured and then said, she fell asleep. The little old woman impressions an hour. Inventions were Life must have been "an empty in faster than he could execute them "Will you allow my husband to talk reappeared, sat down, and said to the made in England and in Germany, dream" to him. Several persons died he had begun to be quite exfrava with you a few moments? He has 1 patient: which brought steam into use, this being in incalculable agony by jumping into gant. your cameo." "Your brother reached home in timeI first adopted by the London Times fiery furnaces, and others saturated He had gratified an oft-expressed In a few moments a tall, handsome am glad to see you getting better sc in 1814. Isaac Adams was .at the their clothing with kerosene oil and wish of mine by having a little cameo gentleman accompanied her into the fast." same time making improvements in set it on fire. Still others clumsily sarring, found in the basket in which room. With that she was gone, and noms. this country, but Richard M. Hoe distanced sought death -by crawling back and they first found me, set in a ring for "Years ago," he began, after apologizing of the parties I have been speaking of the extreme of expectation forth through barbed-wire fences, entailing me for one of my birthday presents. for being the cause of my illness, ever saw her again. People who know when he built the fiist rotary cylinder great suffering, until they died It was an exquisite, clear-cut cameo, and congratulating me on my recovery, the brothers well are firmly convinced press in 1847. Tbe plan of a revolving from exhaustion, and others drove and it had a decidedly unique setting "I had a pair of cameos carved that'they saw and heard just what cylinder had been invented by Nicholson spikes through their brains. Shooting so I had always indulged in the hope in this city. They were unlike anything they allege, and those who scoff at the in England many years previously, was the most popular method employed, that sometime, perhaps, I might learn SODA ever seen here. I had them set story find it hard to explain why Robinson but it was utterly impracticable with poison a good second. through it who my parents were. in a pair of earrings for my wife. One started for home as he did, and until remodeled by Hoe. Since then The most unique example was that ol It had evidently dropped into the night our house was robbed by a arrived Justin time to arrest the hardened it has been continually improved, until a man who impaled himself on his basket by mistake, for there was noth- trusted servant the cameos were tak fellows, who were promptly sent the present degree of perfection has wooden leg. 2ji2 else about me to identify me. en with other valuables." to state prison.New York Sun. been attained^ Beat intheWaxUL C- XiiSi''** ^i^-^ r*"|^r